{"id":11190,"date":"2014-07-08T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11190"},"modified":"2014-07-08T07:15:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T11:15:36","slug":"what-transformers-age-of-extinction-teaches-us-about-global-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/what-transformers-age-of-extinction-teaches-us-about-global-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"What Transformers: Age Of Extinction Teaches Us About Global Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/070814_1112_WhatTransfo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"657\" height=\"346\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thediscussion.net\/main\/17-reactions-to-transformers-age-of-extinction\/\">Transformers: Age of Extinction<\/a> is a commercial, if not critical, success. Ezra Klein writes that all those interested in the future of the economy should take note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Those who can work with robots are best placed to be successful in the future. Nobody says that Transformers has wonderful acting, yet it&#8217;s making oodles of money. Why? Because Michael Bay knows how to work with machines.<\/li>\n<li>Humans are dispensable. Shia LaBeouf, star of the first three films was replaced by Mark Wahlberg in a heartbeat. But a Transformers movie without Optimus Prime wouldn&#8217;t have been half as successful.<\/li>\n<li>China is the future. Transformers is perhaps the first major instance of Chinese product placement in a western movie. It won&#8217;t be the last. China is where the future profits are and companies will make decisions with this in mind.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This article is also featured on our sister site, The Discussion, which has compiled the internet&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/thediscussion.net\/main\/17-reactions-to-transformers-age-of-extinction\/\">best reactions to the latest Transformers movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2014\/7\/6\/5873099\/transformers-4-is-a-master-class-in-economics\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2014\/7\/6\/5873099\/transformers-4-is-a-master-class-in-economics\">Vox<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transformers: Age of Extinction is a commercial, if not critical, success. Ezra Klein writes that all those interested in the future of the economy should take note: Those who can work with robots are best placed to be successful in the future. Nobody says that Transformers has wonderful acting, yet it&#8217;s making oodles of money. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/070814_1112_WhatTransfo1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11193,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11190\/revisions\/11193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}